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Now that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has thrown his cowboy hat into the ring for president, it's time to start handicapping the candidates, even if some of us may wish we had more choices. That's OK, my fellow Americans. You vote for — or against — the choices you have. Do you hear me, progressive-wing Democrats begging Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren to challenge Hillary Clinton? Clinton, who hasn't run for office since 2008, could use the competition to sharpen her pitch. But nobody on the left appears to be ready, viable or well-funded enough to take her on. So let's focus on the elephants, whose herd of presidential wannabes seems to grow larger by the...

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Now that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has thrown his cowboy hat into the ring for president, it's time to start handicapping the candidates, even if some of us may wish we had more choices.
That's OK, my fellow Americans. You vote for — or against — the choices...

While Chicago has been engaged in a heated debate over the use of public parks for President Barack Obama's library, his selection of a host university may have more to do with which institution can offer the most financial support than which offers the...

Freshman Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is running for president, hoping to gain the Republican nomination by bringing together conservatives, libertarians and evangelicals. On foreign policy, that's a tough balance to strike. Yet Cruz has crafted his own brand of...

Project HELP is pleased to announce the addition of 4 new members to its Board of Directors. The success of its services and increasing need for parent mentoring and parent education has caused Project HELP to expand its Board of Directors.
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Once again, President Barack Obama has done something to upset Rush Limbaugh.
I’m so sick of this happening. You’d think by now the president would just stop doing stuff that he knows is going to get Limbaugh mad, stuff like talking to other countries,...

It is a useful thing when a political party reveals itself as utterly unsuited for national leadership. This may be the one redeeming feature of Monday's letter to the Iranian government signed by 47 (or, to put it another way, all but seven) Senate...

— So it turns out Hillary Clinton will face a serious challenger in the primaries, after all. Her name is Hillary Clinton.
Last week's revelation that she used only private email to conduct her public business as secretary of state is not a knockout blow...

Jeb Bush may be the establishment favorite for the Republican presidential nomination, but he still has a lot of work to do to persuade GOP voters to back him, a new poll finds.
By contrast, Democrats seem overwhelmingly willing to support Hillary Rodham...

Let us now make the case for Jeb skepticism.Jeb Bush is a fine man. He’s a conservative. He was a highly effective conservative governor. He would probably make a fine president. And, if he were the Republican nominee, there would be precious few good...

Jeb Bush used his private email account as Florida governor to discuss security and military issues such as troop deployments to the Middle East and the protection of nuclear plants, according to a review of publicly released records.
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MILWAUKEE — When former presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush joined the incumbent president, Bill Clinton, at the 1994 funeral of former president Richard Nixon in Yorba Linda, Calif., it had been more than two decades...

Snoop Dogg will be the keynote speaker during the music portion of the South By Southwest music festival.
The organization announced Tuesday that the conversation with the 43-year-old music veteran will take place March 20 at the Austin Convention Center...

Three teams of computer science students from North Central College continued their tradition of excellence at the 2015 Associated Colleges of the Chicagoland Area (ACCA) computer programming competition held Feb. 21 at Benedictine University in Lisle....

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Parishioners from St. Mary of Gostyn (SMG) in Downers Grove recently established a new council of the Knights of Columbus. This is the first time that SMG has had its own council; in the past men from the parish participated in Knights of Columbus...

Presidential hopefuls Jeb Bush, Scott Walker and Chris Christie are working the Republican big-money circuit of Palm Beach, the Upper East Side of Manhattan and Aspen. In Bush's case, it's going so well that last week he sent word to the deep-pocketed...

Over the last several weeks, as he has jumped into the front rank of GOP presidential hopefuls, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has shifted his conservative stance further to the right on such issues as abortion and immigration, closely aligning himself...

Shame on the members of Congress who did not attend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech. Whether they agree or disagree, they were not elected to a hobby. They were elected to a job, and you cannot pick and choose what you want and don't...

Hillary Rodham Clinton used a private email account for her official government business when she was secretary of state and did not routinely preserve and turn over those emails for government records collection, the State Department said on Monday.
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Former CIA Director David Petraeus, whose career was destroyed by an affair with his biographer, has agreed to plead guilty to charges he gave her classified material — including war strategy and the names of covert operatives — while she was working on...